I Have An Interview

[Old Smokey]

I've been looking at teaching at a college for the last few years since I got my PhD in English and today I have been blessed. Indiana University has an opening and I am on the short list. I hope to get the job.

We will have to move of course but it's a great opportunity. My wife will need to get a teaching job in the area and the kids will have to go to new schools. I'm looking into moving within 40 miles of the college if I get the job since the college is directly off of I-69. There is a tobacconist in Bloomington too so that is a plus.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Good luck!!

 

[cshubhra]

All the best!

 

[kcghost]

Congratulations to you!! Hope you get a fair mix of graduate and undergraduate students. Teaching grad students is the cat's meow.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Good luck!!!!

 

[Old Smokey]

Congratulations to you!! Hope you get a fair mix of graduate and undergraduate students. Teaching grad students is the cat's meow.

I wonder if you're being facetious or not

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

Hope all goes according to plan!

 

[sablebrush52]

I wish you the best of luck!

Coming from a family with a lot of academics I’m not sure what that means.

 

[greeneyes]

Congratulations! I'm a postdoctoral biomedical researcher, and until relatively recently I still held the dream of becoming faculty (professor) at a tier 1 university. It stings a little bit to admit it, but it was never in the cards for me. At least for research faculty, it's nearly impossible to get a position unless you have funding beforehand (a grant) or a cohort of faculty to which you're beholden in some sense and who are pulling strings for you behind the scenes. I assume in your case you'd be a teaching faculty primarily.

 

[AreBee]

Good luck!

 

[Old Smokey]

Congratulations! I'm a postdoctoral biomedical researcher, and until relatively recently I still held the dream of becoming faculty (professor) at a tier 1 university. It stings a little bit to admit it, but it was never in the cards for me. At least for research faculty, it's nearly impossible to get a position unless you have funding beforehand (a grant) or a cohort of faculty to which you're beholden in some sense and who are pulling strings for you behind the scenes. I assume in your case you'd be a teaching faculty primarily.

Yeah, I'll be teaching future teachers and the like. I'm really hoping to land this job. I will turn on my Kentucky charm. They might take me for a Kentucky Colonel .

 

[lraisch]

Good Luck!

 

[augiebd]

Congratulations on making the short list, all the best with the interview!

 

[kcghost]

No, I am dead serious in wishing you the best. The cat's meow refers to pleasure you will get from it.

 

[scloyd]

Good luck. I hope you get the job

 

[Chasing Embers]

They might take me for a Kentucky Colonel

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[Bbailey324]

Best of luck!

 

[Simmerdown☕️]

Hope ya land the gig. ️

 

[Old Smokey]

I found a sub for Wednesday. I'm on pins and needles.

 

[karam]

Good luck!

Congratulations! I'm a postdoctoral biomedical researcher, and until relatively recently I still held the dream of becoming faculty (professor) at a tier 1 university. It stings a little bit to admit it, but it was never in the cards for me. At least for research faculty, it's nearly impossible to get a position unless you have funding beforehand (a grant) or a cohort of faculty to which you're beholden in some sense and who are pulling strings for you behind the scenes. I assume in your case you'd be a teaching faculty primarily.

Yes I can relate, i gave up on trying to make it in academia 10 years ago, turned over to the dark side of the private sector. You really need champions to both score a position and bring/get your own funding.

Playing the game is probably more important than being a good scientist, it’s disgusting really.